According to a press release from the University of Adelaide in Australia, it is possible to glimpse what futures ocean life might encounter with climate change by looking at carbon dioxide-seep volcanic vents. In these areas, acidification...

Even if civilizations all over the globe manage to bring down their carbon emissions to pre-industrial levels, the excessive amount of carbon currently in the ocean will linger, according to a recent press release from the Carnegie...

Scientists have long searched for a missing carbon sink. They accounted for carbon in the air, sea and in plants on land, but some carbon was unaccounted for in the land part of the equation, left unseen....

Nine state-of-the-art computer models were challenged to estimate carbon sequestration in the tundra of Northern Eurasia, and results suggested wide disagreement among the models, according to a release from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Though they...

Waterlogged soils known as peatlands are great natural carbon storage systems, but are regularly developed into oil palm plantations. A new study from University of Minnesota suggests that developing peatland into plantations releases twice as much carbon...

The use of coal-powered electricity in the U.S. dropped from 50 percent to 37 percent between 2007 and 2012 because of increases in natural gas production, according to TreeHugger. But, contrary to popular belief, carbon emissions dropped...

The number of Alaskan wildfires has been increasing and so far this year there have been over 600 wildfires across the state. In a recent article by Wired, Alaska Fire Service officials outline their concerns. The floors...

Scientists at Oregon State University have used historical records from the Laurentide Ice Sheet to determine how ice might respond to a warming climate in the future. The scientists looked back 9,000 years ago to a time...

Heat trapped in the atmosphere by carbon dioxide produced by combustion is actually greater than the amount of heat directly produced from combustion, according to a new study from the Carnegie Institution. Not only is it greater,...

Worldwide carbon dioxide levels passed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to a press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA researchers attribute human activity, specifically the burning of fossil fuels, to the...

Researchers from Imperial College London report in a recent press release that global carbon emissions may be higher than previously thought, due to the exclusion of dead wood in previous estimations of carbon discharge. It was assumed...

China is set to surpass the U.S. as the leading emitter of greenhouse gases, Reuters reported. The trend is measured in cumulative emissions since 1990, the year that world governments began taking action to curb emissions through...

A proposed geoengineering solution to climate change has been grounded, according to a recent press release by Inderscience Publishers, publishers of the International Journal of Global Warming. Several recent studies and reports have called geoengineering climate solutions...

Greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost may not occur in a single, large gas emission as previously thought, but rather in a much lower, gradual emission of greenhouse gas over a much longer period of time, according to...

Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States are predicted to go down in 2015, according to The Guardian. The likely reduction is linked to the planned shutdowns of many coal-fired power plants as other green energy pushes...

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